Amusing Musings on Pickup Options

[maddog]

The Bongoloids are wanting single H's

The Stinganese and Sterlopeans are craving extra pickups.

And BP, Darg, Beth, et al. are bringing everyone into the universal harmonic convergence.

 

[Darth Tater]

I want a flametop Bongo with P/J pickups and a 5 band EQ with a reverse headstock.

 

[adouglas]

And BP, Darg, Beth, et al. are bringing everyone into the universal harmonic convergence.

Is THAT what this place is called?

 

[adouglas]

I want a flametop Bongo with P/J pickups and a 5 band EQ with a reverse headstock.

Hey, cool! but only if it looks like a Carvin....

 

[strummer]

The Bongoloids are wanting single H's

The Stinganese and Sterlopeans are craving extra pickups.

And BP, Darg, Beth, et al. are bringing everyone into the universal harmonic convergence.

I have been thinking, Sterling always goes "---only so many hooks on a wall---" and with all the new stuff coming out I have a night mare vision of EBMM actually dropping some current bass models or options. Hope this doesn't happen, but can't help wondering which model they'd drop if it came to that.

 

[adouglas]

If I had to guess...the Silhouette?

It's a bit of a specialty item, after all....

The EBMM bass lineup is quite rational IMHO. Compare this to F*nder. Over there you've got seemingly endless variations on the exact same bass design with price points all over the map. I mean, how many different ways can you interpret the Jazz bass, anyhow?

I think the dealers with limited space will probably stock one or two of each overall model (Ray, Sterling, Ray5, Bongo, SUB) in the pickup variation(s) they think will sell best, because they'll feel and play the same as the ones with different pickups. Customers can then order the pickup flavor of their choice if they don't like what's in the store.

It's like color. The dealers have to decide what's going to sell when they order, which effectively makes any of the less-common colors a special order option. It doesn't cost EBMM much to keep those colors available, though...it's just paint.

Assuming that logic is valid, the less common pickup variations will be, in effect, special order items. It's not as if EBMM has to keep a pile of bodies available, since it's just a different program in the CNC machine. The only carrying cost for them is stocking the different pickguards, pickups and electronics necessary to build the new models.

 

[smallequestrian]

The Silhouette bass isn't exactly taking up a lot of hooks at GC, so thats not a problem. EB has 5 basses with 3 main options. And when the Sterling 5 comes out they will have 6. GC's have shown the ability to have 20 in stock at one time, so they could easily do 2 of each let alone 3. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[Figjam]

So the Sterling 5 is a definite thing now? What are the specs? Sterling shape neck, with a more sterling like body? Will the stingray 5 still be the same as it is now? So wouldnt that make them veryyy similiar basses, mainly varying in ergonomics?

 

[MingusBASS]

So the Sterling 5 is a definite thing now? What are the specs? Sterling shape neck, with a more sterling like body? Will the stingray 5 still be the same as it is now? So wouldnt that make them veryyy similiar basses, mainly varying in ergonomics?

There WILL be a Sterling 5, but none of us know the details.

Andrew

 

[Figjam]

When is it said to come out?

 

[MingusBASS]

When is it said to come out?

If I recall correctly, the Sterling 5 won't be till Winter Namm next year(2007). So it will be a while.

Andrew

 

[Figjam]

Alright.

 

[Darth Tater]

Hey, cool! but only if it looks like a Carvin....

Yeah and hack of that upper horn also.

So to sum up, I want:

Flametop Bongo Singlecut with P/J pickups, 5 band EQ, reverse headstock AND Kahler trem installed.

And since you mention Carvin...I want it neck-through.

 

[adouglas]

Yeah and hack of that upper horn also.

So to sum up, I want:

Flametop Bongo Singlecut with P/J pickups, 5 band EQ, reverse headstock AND Kahler trem installed.

And since you mention Carvin...I want it neck-through.

What, no Hipshot detuners? Sheesh.

Not to mention a trick bridge that lets you string through the body or not, your choice.

Oh, and a MIDI pickup. And piezos. And a zero fret. And a matching headstock overlay. And abalone inlays on the bound neck.

Not to mention LED side dot markers.

Seriously, my main bass for several years was a Carvin, which I eventually wound up installing an Aguilar preamp and Bartolini pickups in.

It was a darned good bass (especially after installing the new electronics), and served me very well. But da Bongo is better. Bigger, meaner, nastier, ballsier...Godzilla vs. the Geico gecko. Nothing wrong with the gecko...but the poor little green sucker becomes irrelevant when Godzilla starts spewing that radioactive breath.....

 

[oddjob]

Nothing wrong with the gecko...but the poor little green sucker becomes irrelevant when Godzilla starts spewing that radioactive breath.....

Ahhhh, more tales of the Bongo leveling small cities!!!